superdeluxe

Everyone should at least see one movie at the Cinerama, try it if you can. Every city has a metroplex like the AMC pacific place (It is nice because there are soem decent places to eat in there)

hapgilmore

Well sorry I should have pointed out that for certain movies it is a rip-off and for others it is not.

Daytripper

I agree. Amazing film. You walk out of the theater elated.

RoboDad

And yet wistful as well, because the ending leaves no room for doubt that the Toy Story is over.

Giles

I must admit, while I like the whole 3D craze and everything, even if Toy Story 3 wasn't released in 3D, it wouldn't have made any difference. However some of the film's set pieces, the opening and the frenetic ending were meant to be seen on the largest screen possible -

It's very odd, that Dolby really isn't going all out in it's advertising of the 7.1 release of the film, there is no indication on part of Dolby or the theatres themselves in the Washington Post as to who made the upgrade - are any other city papers denoting this??

Giles

update: Regal theatres in and around DC that converted to 7.1 include, Gallery Place (DC, both screens), Kingstowne in Alexandria, Germantown, MD and Westview Stadium 16 in Frederick Maryland.

Mr. Cinema

Deadline Hollywood says based on the early numbers, the weekend total could be $118 mil to $125 mil.

CloverClover

indiana jones 4 made a boat load of money and had similar problems as toy 3, both are just watered down remakes of the others, only with more mold and dust. a fresher idea would have been, if they were already in the attic in the beginning, and it was about how they coped with it, and learn to be self sufficient, without a boy to play with them. or something. so many other angles could have been taken, or lessons explored, but they just remade toy story 2

EdTheRipper

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised. The theater I saw it in was packed. And there were quite a few people lined up to get into the next one.

Ash Ketchum

Was it shot in 3-D or was the 3-D added in post?

Of the reviews I've read, nobody's talking about the 3-D, except for the New York Post's Lou Lumenick who dismisses the 3-D as "pointless" in one line.

Brent L

Isn't the 3D effect in all animated films added in post just because of the mere fact that they are animated in the first place?

dcprules

What trailers are before this? Do we get typical Pixar trailer for there next flick, which I think is Cars 2?

Can't wait to see this! Hopefully tomorrow night. Haven't been this excited for a movie in a while.

Giles

trailers:
'Voyage of the Dawn Treader'
'Dispecible Me'
'Cats and Dogs:Kitty Galore'
Disney's 'Tangled' (dumb name in my opinion)
'Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole'
'Megamind'

no trailer or teaser for Cars 2 - thank god.

Blu Man

Supermallet

The 3D added depth but it wasn't a big "Wow! Look at this!" kind of effect.

Rypro 525

wow, same theater diff trailers
we got
that nicolas cage disney movie
voyage of the dawn treader
dispecible me
alpha and omega (one of dennis hoppers last works)
megamind
Tangled

Blu Man

Different prints, different trailers.

Solid Snake

.....it's 3D regardless. It's made on a digital plane. From there it's just added in post...that's how all Animated 3D movies are made, Ash. It can't be "shot" in 3D. It's MADE in 3D....wtf are you talking about?

Giles

'Coraline' stop motion animation was shot in stereoptican (3D) still camera capture.

Solid Snake

Yeah but it's not a 3D animated film. Coraline...That's shot on a physical plane. It's not made in 3D you know..digital art and whatnot.

Daytripper

Well, it happened. That asshole Armond White hated it. And Cole Smithey gave it a C+ (why does that count as "rotten"?) with the following:

"Once you get past paying the inflated price for an animated "3-D" movie where nothing floats in front of your eyes as with quality 3-D films, the story that unfolds is more sad than joyful."

Giles

what the hell are you smoking? Coraline is an animated film - not CGI (well a little bit of it was) and it was filmed with a camera shooting the 3D effect in camera on the set - how that doesn't constitute 3D filming to you is just baffling.

Solid Snake

I'm talking about 3D in the sense of animation aka CG animated feature. Coraline wasn't CG, that had to be shot. Toy Story isn't shot on film. It's made on a computer. I mean 3D in that digital animation sense.

Supermallet

Both Coraline and Toy Story are animated, but one is stop motion animation and the other is CGI. With stop motion, since you have physical objects, you have to shoot it in 3D. For CGI films, the elements are rendered in 3D, not shot with a camera.

Giles

I just wanted you to clarify that for the masses, because alot of folk throw around that overall 'animation' term around like it's supposed to encompass all 'animated' film when the genre itself utilized many techniques. Someone at the DC screening of 'Waking Sleeping Beauty' made that comment/mistake and I was quick to ask a question/rectify that overall blanket generalization - that just irks me to no avail, when the idea and notion that CGI animated films are in some way superior to standard 2D cel/stop motion animated films.

sorry there, but I had to rant and vent for a sec.